To read this book, which is not at all easy to understand, one should be thoroughly armed, since we will become a participant in the great philosophical Battle of the subject, together with the author, the French philosopher Vincent Decombe, destroying the metaphysical subject and placing in its place a post-metaphysical subject.
To read this book, which is not at all easy to understand, one should be thoroughly armed, as we will become a participant in the great philosophical Battle of the subject, together with the author, the French philosopher Vincent Decombe, destroying the metaphysical subject and placing in its place a post-metaphysical subject. Will he become our new tyrant or lead us to a new cosmological status? What does he have to do and who to be in order to earn the title of subject? What conditions should be created for its development? Developing the ideas of the Austrian philosopher, one of the founders of analytic philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author follows his testament — «Philosophy unravels the knots of our thoughts» — and devotes his work to the patient treatment of philosophy from the disease «subjective metaphysics». Plunging us into the Fight, he himself refuses to participate in it, neither for nor against the thesis that turns us into subjects. Like a cunning samurai, he takes a position above the Fight and quietly laughs, watching our torment and futile attempts to unite in a single concept all uses of the words «subject», «subjective», «self», «ego», «I», «self» and and so on, the words that philosophers use when talking about self-consciousness. If we live to see the end of the Conflict, we will have a chance to solve the most mysterious koan — «who or what is I?».
UFO, 576 p.